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With the failure of members of the Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) unable to reach a consensus on the draft Free and Compulsory Education Bill, HRD Minister Arjun Singh may not be able to table it in the upcoming Parliament session.
We need wider consultations. Several issues have been raised here. We need to look into the merits of all of them. We shall decide in due course, said Singh after a crucial CABE meeting at Vigyan Bhavan today. Though he insisted that the bill would be ready for passage in Parliament at the earliest, it was clear that it would happen only by the winter session.
The bill was prepared during the tenure of previous HRD minister Murli Manohar Joshi of the NDA. But a CABE committee set up last year by the UPA government headed by Science and Technology Minister Kapil Sibalchanged many provisions.
The discord reflected in todays deliberations is over a number of issues the most important is the idea of common schooling. Some members, especially Delhi-based educationist Anil Sadgopal, feels that in the 21st Century, early education should be common and complete equitable.
Obviously, such a concept involves a huge number of government-sponsored or government-run schools even in urban areas where private schools have mushroomed over the past few years. It would be difficult for the Ministry to give in to this idea and dismantle the private school system.
But without the Free and Compulsory Education legislation, the government would be hard-pressed to give teeth to the Constitutional amendment that the Parliament passed in 2002 whereby free and universal education has been guaranteed to all children between the age of six to 14.
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